Announced on Soma's blog (and soon to be followed by Silverlight 1.0 RC 1). There are some really compelling features in Visual Studio 2008 - especially if you're a web developer. I've been using VS 2008 Beta 1 for some time (can't remember the last time...

From our Mix:UK site Mix:UK 07 is the premier event for web designers and web developers to: Get creative inspiration from design and development gurus, web agencies and innovators Discover how technologies like Silverlight, Expression and Live Services...

Ian Griffiths has an excellent and detailed post on the "Silverlight Control" and its many guises . Technorati tags: silverlight

An email on one of our internal aliases made me realise that I hadn't included the namespaces I'd included in the code for accessing for these entries. Someone referenced my blog entry and gave me credit for writing my own JavaScript serialiser - fortunately...

See also part 1 and part 2 . So we're at the point where we've set up our environment, we've created a project structure and we've managed to call the membership service to authenticate users. What about if I want to make use of the (very useful) Profile...

Ahem. I appreciate this is cutting things a little fine but I've only just realised that the Ceilidh band I've been offered isn't really what I was looking for. In a desperate bid to find a replacement I'm casting the net as far and wide as possible....

In part 1 , we set ourselves up for success by creating the necessary project structure, xaml file and changes to web.config to enable application services for script access. Oh, and I mentioned you need ASP.NET AJAX on your web server as we'll be needing...

Okay, between me writing Accessing ASP.NET Application Services from Silverlight part1 and part 2 (haven't got a hyperlink yet as I'm in the process of writing it), Daniel "tagged" me with one of these "8 Random Things About You" memes. So here goes:...

A chance conversation at the NxtGenUG got me to thinking about whether you could access the ASP.NET Membership service and Profile service from Silverlight managed code. As ASP.NET AJAX allows you to expose these to JavaScript (using JSON serialisation...

If you don't subscribe to VSJ then do so immediately even if it's just to get hold of my Office Open XML article! Unlike Martin's article on Windows Live Data , you can't view mine online (no, I don't know why not) but you can subscribe to VSJ for free...

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I was chatting to someone about Windows Workflow Foundation last night at the NxtGenUG meeting and I recommended a book but could only remember the author's name (and even then only one of them - poor Bob Schmidt, 2nd in line and up against a memorable...

I don't profess to know much about the economics or motivations for spamming but I was impressed today when someone managed to achieve a "Spam Score" of 385 for a comment they posted to my blog. That's a whole order of magnitude higher than any score...

First of all a huge thanks to the members of the NxtGenUG for giving me such a warm welcome. And of course to Rich and John for organising (and buying me a drink!). There was a great turnout and despite the noise of taxiing aircraft we managed to cover...

After a number of requests for the source code for my Office Open XML nuggets , I've started to put some of the source files up on Office Dinosaur . I'll continue to add to this and ensure that, where possible, I publish the source for future nuggets...

Following an invite from Richard Costall , I'll be taking advantage of the hospitality offered by the NxtGenUG usergroup next Monday (9th July) when I drop by to talk about Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and XAML. Details are as follows...